Around the age of 27 I started hearing voices and seeing "things". I would see "beings" that no one else saw. I thought I was going crazy. The voices, footsteps, and sightings grew in intensity for about six months. There were patterns that were predictable and occured every day. I thought I was "losing it", until my sister in law experienced exactly the same thing, then my wife experienced the same thing. Three people experienced the same phenomenon, and I never said a word, until they started telling me about their "experience". We compared stories and realized this was an external force. In the past ten years I have seen what I believe are spirits many times. While I believe there are some people that suffer from mental illness, it would be a shame to "diagnose" someone that is really experiencing a legitimate encounter with an outside entity.
You and your family and friends aren't the only one with these experiences. As a matter of fact, I personally know several people who were brave enough to talk about it and compare notes. Consequently, the experiences were almost identical to what you have described. Now I have my personal beliefs about what is happening and what the end result will be based on my faith. There are websites dedicated to this very thing which have helped immensely to understand it. Joyce Myer's book, Battlefield of the Mind is an excellent resource to help one understand "why" this is happening.
I think I have this. I know it sounds crazy, but I often think people can read my mind, and that there are hidden cameras in my house. I also won't eat my school lunch because I think someone is trying to poision me. I am afraid to go out in public. I am seeing a psycologist, but I don't think that is any good. What do I do?
I'm sorry to hear that you are experiencing this. How frightening it must be for you. Have you told your Psychologist your thoughts/feelings? The Psychologist should refer you to a Psychatrist also. The sooner you receive the right medications or treatments the more likely you can recover.
Best wishes.
i an am diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic an i think ur "small" article is informative but also quite derogatory to people who suffer from this condition when you refer to the symptoms at the end as "MILD" i appriciate ur a doctor but obviosly dont see the intensity of what it is actually like to "have" theese symptoms....!
I have this kind of schizophrenia since 2006 year this is very difficult for me.I still feel powerless I cut my sociable contact I am alone and ill.I don't hear voice but sometimes have halucination but rather in past now is much better.The worst in that all is that doctors in my country don't give hope for cure schizofrenia.They talk they this is curelby.Mr that is your opinion is or isn't schizophrenia curable?I have lucy that i never want begin family and that i dont have problem with it.But sociable is very impornt to me tea or caffe with friend ,shoping not exist without it.
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Thanks expert Jerry
This sharepost is full of much helpful and thought provoking detail. At the stage we are now at, I have on a personal level come to recognise , very clearly I think ,that anxiety/primordial fear as having been the chief driving force so the 'construction engineer' of the sz brain comes up with paranoid distortions, initially as coping solutions, our son shows.
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Chris UK
This has been a helpful post in helping me understand schizophrenia better. I have been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and all i knew was what was told to me, with that not being alot.
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Matt
I have just read this article and now I am convinced my late husband suffered from this illness but unfortunately although diagnosed many years ago when he was in a previous marriage there was no follow up. He was also born three months premature weighing one kilo which may also have caused this illness.
He committed suicide three weeks ago.
Sorry to hear about your loss. I have suffered from it for almost 20 yrs, it is very frightning and hopeless at times. My mind has taken me places i have yet to understand. Just remember it is not your fault, but the mind never really has peace and it must have been too much for him. Stay strong.